Remember I said that Knuckles has games nobody buys any more? Just remember that.
Chapter 6: More of the end.
"Okay, now on to the next room!" Sonic said, pointing to the screen. He paused, pointed to the left, then to the right, then stopped altogether. "Shadow! Where's the door?" "Hold on, I'll find it." Shadow said, then looked around. Soon realising there was only one door, he said, "Tails, where's the door?" "Umm..." He looked through the walls, looking for a secret exit. He didn't find any. "I don't know." "AMY!" Knuckles yelled, punching the screen in rage. It fell apart, revealing a wooden wall behind it with-guess what? A door! "Hey, Knuckles did something useful for once!" Sonic said. "Hey, I stopped the ARK from falling to earth!" "No you didn't. We did." Shadow said, motioning towards Sonic. "Hey, why am I still here?" he said, and ran out the door.
"That was weird. Anyway, on to the next room! Who's going to be in there? Cream or Rouge?" Tails said, and walked through the door. He then yelled. Inside the room was a small balcony, and nothing else. Sonic and Knuckles came along as well, and looked around. There seemed to be hydraulic items to bring the balcony down, but the rest seemed to be made of wood. Then the balcony lowered, and after a bit a blue floor came into view. It looked to be made of small blocks big enough for one of them to stand on. They looked around, there seemed to be nobody there. Then a flash of white went past them, going down. They looked, and found nobody. Then a face looked out from under the balcony.
"Rouge!" Knuckles yelled, and he watched Rouge run over to the other side of the room. She then made a hand motion to Knuckles for him to come over. "Well... Okay, but I don't think this is safe." He jumped off the balcony, and went over to Rouge. She held out her right hand, which was, as usual, gloved, and Knuckles took it. Then she looked as if she was feeling faint, and fell on Knuckles' shoulder. "Guys, we better get her out of here. I can't hear her breathing." Knuckles said, and he walked, his left hand supporting Rouge to the wall. He looked and found it would be perfect for climbing. He got to the balcony again, and dropped her body on there, exhausted.
"Whew, climbing while carrying someone is hard work. How do we make this thing go up?" He said, and looked at the railing, for some kind of switch. "Umm... Knuckles, I don't think we should..." Tails said, his voice quivering a bit. "Why? Don't you want to help her?" He snapped back. "I'm all for helping Rouge," Sonic said, "but it's hard to help someone when all you have is their clothes!" Knuckles looked at where he dropped Rouge. He could see her gloves, boots, top and pants, but no Rouge. Knuckles knelt down to inspect the clothes, and so did Sonic. Tails saw, behind the balcony, a huge white thing with arms with no hands coming out of its cheeks. It didn't have a body, just a huge head. "Umm... Guys..."
They looked up. Sonic said, "Yeah?" The thing vanished. "Err... nothing." He replied, and they went back to what they were doing. Suddenly the shape reappeared. "Guys! Behind you!" Tails yelled, and Knuckles looked to see nothing. "Tails, don't do that. You're freaking me out." Knuckles said, and he went back to what he was doing. Then it reappeared, and this time Tails was too scared to say anything. Disappointed with the result, the thing floated up to Sonic and tapped him on the shoulder. Without looking up, Sonic just said something. "Tails, stop bugging us, we're trying to work on something here!" Rather annoyed, the thing went over and did the same thing to Knuckles. He did look, but he just said "Hi."
Thinking a bit more, he went back over to Sonic, and poked him in the back of his head. Sonic turned around, saying "Tails, quit-" He stopped, seeing nobody there. "It?" He looked around, seeing nobody but them. "O... Kay..." Then a huge white thing appeared out of thin air. Sonic scrambled back out of shock, catching the attention of Knuckles. "What's up?" "G-G-Ghost!" Sonic said, pointing to the thing. Knuckles looked back, saw it, and looked back at Sonic. "Yeah, so? That thing's about three times my size. I've seen one 50 times my size! And I beat that!" "So you met my cousin, King Boom Boo?" The ghost said, making Tails and Sonic jump. "Yes I have." "Well he may have been big, but he's weak. I'm Big Boo, and we'll crush you!" The ghost flew backwards, waiting for a challenger.
"So who'll fight this thing?" Knuckles asked. Sonic, shaking like a massaging chair, said "N-No way. I... Have an allergy to ectoplasm!" "That's a really lame excuse. Tails?" Tails was shaking five times more than Homer's Spinemelter 3000. "I guess I'm facing you, Big Boo!" Knuckles jumped off the balcony and landed on his feet on the blue floor. "Okay, you're on!" Big Boo floated down to the floor. "Ready... GO!" Big Boo moved his stubby arms over his eyes and vanished into thin air. "Chicken. Come out and fight or neither of us will win!" Knuckles held his fist to his face. "On the contrary, little red wimp. While I'm left invincible, these guys will beat you!" After he said that two little Boos, about the size of Tails' head appeared, floating in no general direction.
"Ugh... useless things. Here I go!" Big Boo appeared again behind Knuckles and damaged him simply by floating into him. "How does that work?" "I'm evil, so it just does." And with that, he vanished. "Okay, different approach. Now what to do... Hold on, I've got it!" He then sat down and started meditating. A little Boo hit him. "Ugh! Now for some general rage! Wait, I sense something..." He jumped up, span around and punched Big Boo. His fist went through. "What?" "Ever played Pokemon? You're a fighting type. I'm a ghost type. Get the picture?" "... No. My Machoke hit a Ghastly with a Rock Slide." "... Never mind. Imbecile..." After about three more unsuccessful rounds, Knuckles was feeling a little faint. After another hit, he just cracked. He knelt down and punched the floor.
"Rouge... I failed. I couldn't save you. I feel like such a wimp. Why must I fail at everything I do?" He then started punching the floor. Or he would, if his fist didn't get stuck on the floor. "God, way to ruin the moment... Little help here?" Sonic stepped over. "I would, and so would Tails, but we're meant to do it alone." "Great, I'm stuck." Then he felt something grab his leg. "Huh?" He looked and found, to his shock, a little Boo trying to pull him out. "Gee, thanks, but I don't think you're strong enough." Just as he said that, the other Boo joined in. Knuckles felt it loosen up. "Almost there, but we just need a little more help." Almost by command, a little thing with a hardhat walked up in front of him with a pickaxe.
Smashing the pickaxe into the gap, the block dislodged from the rest of them, but not his fist. Looking at the block, Knuckles saw it had two lines that looked a bit like eyes. Then the Big Boo came over, but it wasn't interested in Knuckles. He flew over to the Boos, very angry. "You helped him? You don't help the enemy! I'll crush you!" Then a sharp pain went through his head. Looking back, he saw Knuckles, his arm poise like he just threw something. Knuckles had thrown the block on his hand! "These little guys helped me when I needed help, and I'm not going to let you push them around!" Knuckles punched two more blocks, taking them out of where they were, and tossed them, one by one.
Big Boo writhed in pain, and then died in a similar way to his cousin. Knuckles looked at the two Boos, who helped him out, then looked at the hardhat thing that dislodged the block. It turned into a beam of light and shot to the balcony. It went directly into the screen of Tails' GBASP. "But I thought we had to do it alone." Knuckles said. "We do," Sonic said, "But if Amy's using a Game Boy to create these things, why don't we help each other out with ours?" "She's using a Game Boy? How did you figure that out?" "When you jumped," Tails explained, "the Boos moved around shakily, like they did in Super Mario Advance 2, if you did the same thing."
Then, a white blur went past them. Looking at the floor, they found Rouge, completely naked. She woke up, rubbing her head, and looked at Knuckles. He was looking like he was about to faint. "Hey," Rouge said, "Any of you guys feel cold?" She looked down and saw she was naked, then screamed. His eyes closed, Sonic threw her clothes over. "Thanks." Rouge then started putting them on. When she was done, she explained what happened. "Amy let me have my body back if I could be used as bait to bring you into the lair of Big Boo. I faked fainting, and Big Boo did the rest." She then saw the Boos. "She didn't mention these guys though. Who are they?" "Big Boo's former slaves. Can you get them out?" Knuckles said.
"Sure. Come on guys, or girls...Things!" She then led them out of the room. "Well... That was weird. Now, to find Cream. How do we get there?" Sonic looked around. So did Tails. "Well, we're stuffed. We're stuck in here forever." Sonic said. "I'm not! So long, suckers!" Tails flew away. He came back down later, exhausted. "Knuckles?" He tried to climb, but part of the wall was metal, making the climb impossible. "We're screwed. We're stuck forever."
Of course, they're not, but how do they get out? I know, nobody else does (not even the monkey friend) Anyway, review, but when you read this, I'm probably already working on the next chapter!